Heritage route
Strasburg Rail Road
Strasburg → Paradise · United States
Strasburg Rail Road in pictures
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- Distance
- 7 km
- Fastest time
- 25 min
- Average speed
- 17 km/h
- Top speed
- 24 km/h
- Operator
- Strasburg Rail Road
- Train
- Baldwin & CN steam, wooden coaches
- Countries
- United States
- In service since
- 1832
- Runs
- daily Apr–Nov, select winter days
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Chartered in 1832, America’s oldest continuously operating railroad still steams through Lancaster County’s Amish farmland.
Chartered in 1832 and never abandoned, the Strasburg Rail Road hauled milk, coal and lumber for over a century before reinventing itself as a steam railroad in 1958: making it the oldest continuously operating railroad in the western hemisphere. Heavy Baldwin and Canadian-built locomotives now walk wooden coaches across Amish farmland to Paradise, exchanging waves with horse-drawn buggies at the crossings. The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania sits directly across the road from the depot.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 7592251 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Strasburg Rail Road — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- East Strasburg wooden depot
- Amish farms and buggy crossings
- Groff’s Grove picnic stop
- Leaman Place Junction at Paradise
- Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
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